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Freenet6's TSP is a new initiative launched by Viagenie, a private
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company in Canada involved in IPv6 since 1996, to facilitate a
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faster deployment of an Internet IPv6. Internet is world-wide
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deployed over IPv4, therefore this project has the main goal of
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deploying IPv6 at a larger scale by using configured tunnels.
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Configured tunnel is a transitional method standardized by the IETF
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to use IPv6 in coexistence with IPv4 by encapsulating IPv6 packets
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over IPv4. Any host already connected to Internet with IPv4 and
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having an IPv6 stack could establish link to Internet IPv6.
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Freenet6, developed by Viagenie in 1999-2000, was the first public
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tunnel server service and one of the most used in the world to
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delegate automatically one single IPv6 address to any host already
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connected to an IPv4 network over configured tunnel simply by
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filling a Web form and running a script. Freenet6's TSP is representing
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another very important step to accelerate the deployment at large
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scale of IPv6 to everyone on the net.
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Instead of a Web interface to request configured tunnels and IPv6
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addresses, Freenet6's TSP is a new model based on a client/server
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approach. A protocol is used to request one single IPv6 address to
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a full IPv6 prefix from a client to a tunnel server according to
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the IPv6 broker model. The protocol could be integrated directly
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into the operating system to give a service like DHCP but for
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requesting IPv6 addresses or prefixes over an IPv4 network (Internet).
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WWW: http://www.freenet6.net/
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- Edwin Groothuis
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edwin@mavetju.org
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